Possibly the single most environmentally harmful impact of travel is the CO2 emmissions from international flights. Each time we turn on the TV, switch on the cooker, take a flight or drive the car, CO2 is added into the atmosphere. CO2 is a greenhouse gas that is released when fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal are burnt.
So often now, with all the media focus on CO2 emissions, people think that offsetting your CO2 is simply a case of planting trees. However, Climate Care does much more than just that! And it means that you can 'neutralise' or 'balance' the CO2 added by your activities.
Reducing CO2 emissions can be done a number of ways and in a variety of countries - Climate Care is presently working in India, South Africa, Kazakhstan, Marshall Islands, Uganda, Mexico and Honduras.
The projects range from giving energy efficient lightbulbs to low income families; new, efficient stoves that release fewer pollutants within the house and also have lower CO2 emissions; wind turbines in India for energy (instead of using oil and coal fired power stations); a treadle water pump instead of a diesel fuel pump, using manpower instead of fossil fuels, to a system of combined cookstoves in some schools in India, that run on briquettes made from crop waste left over from the harvest, meaning that the farmers no longer have to burn their crop waste in the fields. And there is a re-forestation project running in Uganda, which not only will help with the CO2 emissions but will also become home to a number of endangered primates and provides work for up to 400 local people.
All of the projects are sustainable, helping people either in terms of health or survival financially and they all have lowered the CO2 emissions in each area.
On the Go Tours are proud to be working with Climate Care. You may now easily off-set the CO2 emmissions from you international flights by filling in relevant details into the emmissions calculator below.
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